HORROR OF ALL HORRORS OR HOPE OF ALL HOPES (43 OF 53)
by Mike Stone
Scripture: I Corinthians 15:12-23
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Horror of All Horrors or Hope of All Hopes (43 of 53)
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed-Up Church
Mike Stone
I Corinthians 15:12-23
Harry Houdini was an incredibly talented man. Young people, he was an escape artist of the early 1900's. He had the flexibility of a snake, the mind of a genius, and the 9 lives of a cat. Harry Houdini would be locked in coffins, riveted in barrels, and sewn into sacks and in each and every case he would escape.
That is, until October of 1926. They finally put ol' Harry in a hole he couldn't escape. He had died and they put him in a grave.
His wife, a self-appointed clairvoyant, tried for ten years to contact his spirit. She was convinced that Harry was alive and was going to get out of that grave. She would talk to his portrait with the sincere belief that at any minute he was going to come walking through the door.
On the 10th anniversary of his death, she blew out the candle and gave up hope that Harry would ever come out of that burial plot. Mrs. Houdini was only ½ wrong. For while Harry would not come out of the grave in the way she anticipated, the day will come that he and every other person who has ever died will be raised.
That's not the stuff of a science-fiction movie. That's the truth we find in 1 Corinthians 15. Speaking of the promised resurrection of the dead, I want to talk to you about the two options you have as far as your belief in the afterlife. The afterlife for you will either be the Horror of All Horrors or Hope of All Hopes.
The Corinthian church was one of the most mixed-up and messed-up churches in the ancient world. You probably would not want to have been a member there. And now, false teachers had begun to teach that there was no resurrection of the dead. Paul immediately responds that if no one is ever raised from the dead, Christianity falls apart.
Four years ago, on Easter Sunday I preached from this passage about some terrible tragedies that become terrible truths if Chri ...
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed-Up Church
Mike Stone
I Corinthians 15:12-23
Harry Houdini was an incredibly talented man. Young people, he was an escape artist of the early 1900's. He had the flexibility of a snake, the mind of a genius, and the 9 lives of a cat. Harry Houdini would be locked in coffins, riveted in barrels, and sewn into sacks and in each and every case he would escape.
That is, until October of 1926. They finally put ol' Harry in a hole he couldn't escape. He had died and they put him in a grave.
His wife, a self-appointed clairvoyant, tried for ten years to contact his spirit. She was convinced that Harry was alive and was going to get out of that grave. She would talk to his portrait with the sincere belief that at any minute he was going to come walking through the door.
On the 10th anniversary of his death, she blew out the candle and gave up hope that Harry would ever come out of that burial plot. Mrs. Houdini was only ½ wrong. For while Harry would not come out of the grave in the way she anticipated, the day will come that he and every other person who has ever died will be raised.
That's not the stuff of a science-fiction movie. That's the truth we find in 1 Corinthians 15. Speaking of the promised resurrection of the dead, I want to talk to you about the two options you have as far as your belief in the afterlife. The afterlife for you will either be the Horror of All Horrors or Hope of All Hopes.
The Corinthian church was one of the most mixed-up and messed-up churches in the ancient world. You probably would not want to have been a member there. And now, false teachers had begun to teach that there was no resurrection of the dead. Paul immediately responds that if no one is ever raised from the dead, Christianity falls apart.
Four years ago, on Easter Sunday I preached from this passage about some terrible tragedies that become terrible truths if Chri ...
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